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Markus Thomas Theodor Söder is a German politician born on 5 January 1967 in Nuremberg, Bavaria.
He serves as Minister-President of Bavaria, a position he has held since March 2018, and as chairman of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) since January 2019.
Raised in a conservative Protestant family in the Nuremberg district of Schweinau, he is the son of Max Söder, a master bricklayer who ran a small construction business with his wife Renate, a trained bank clerk.